Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Book Announcement: PHILOSOPHY AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

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On 5/23/18, 'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series
<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Dear ALL:It is a pleasure to announce the publication of my book from
> Routledge--
> Philosophy and National Development in Nigeria: Towards a Nigerian Tradition
> of Philosophy
> Book Description:
> What does it imply for Nigerian philosophers to conscientiously and
> engagingly reflect on Nigeria as a place of philosophy and as a dynamic
> plural context of socioeconomic, political, cultural and ethnic problems?
> Any answer to this question automatically constitutes the opening salvo to
> the reflection on the evolution of a Nigerian tradition of philosophy and
> philosophizing. This book represents such an initial salvo in in its attempt
> to hammer out the conditions for the possibility of a Nigerian tradition of
> philosophy by placing that endeavor in between the triadic challenges of the
> Nigerian political economy, the African philosophical theorizing and the
> global epistemological hegemony. How do these three dynamics condition the
> evolution and functional relevance of the philosophical enterprise in
> Nigeria? How have Nigerian philosophers responded to them? What is Nigerian
> philosophy? How can there be a "Nigerian" philosophy when there are no
> Nigerians? This book is also an attempt to contribute to the trajectory of
> philosophy education in Nigeria within the context of a postcolonial
> educational system and university dynamics that stultifies the role of the
> intellectuals in development.
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> From Plato to Wiredu, from Bodunrin to Bourdieu, and from Heidegger and
> Nietzsche to Fanon, Mignolo and Santos, the book traces a trajectory of
> dynamics rethinking of existing paradigms and epistemological assumptions
> that could enable a robust evolution of a Nigerian tradition of philosophy
> that possesses sufficient clout to confront its historicity and its place in
> Nigeria's development
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> Philosophy and National Development in Nigeria: Towards a Tradition of
> Nigerian Philosophy (Hardback) - Routledge
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> Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
> Department of Philosophy
> University of Ibadan
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> +23480-3928-8429
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